WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four Boy Scout leaders died in an
electrical accident on the first day of the organization's
National Jamboree gathering near Bowling Green, Virginia, the
Boy Scouts of America said in a statement on Monday.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Egyptian ambassador to Pakistan
on Tuesday denied reports that Pakistani nationals were
involved in the weekend bomb attacks in the Red Sea resort of
Sharm el-Sheikh that killed at least 64 people.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali children are being killed,
illegally detained, tortured and raped in a brutal civil war in
the impoverished nation that has claimed thousands of lives,
Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

By Irene Klotz and Deborah Zabarenko CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Space shuttle Discovery
cleared a critical countdown hurdle on Tuesday when a suspect
sensor performed well during fueling, clearing the way for the
first shuttle launch since the 2003 Columbia disaster.

BISHKEK (Reuters) - The United States won assurances from
Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday that Washington could keep its military
base in the ex-Soviet Central Asian state as long as the
situation in Afghanistan required it.

By James Grubel CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian officials urged a Chinese
diplomat to abandon his claim for political asylum and to say
he had been on holidays to explain why he went missing from the
Chinese consulate for a week, an inquiry heard on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's political parties, reflecting
rising anger at dramatic television images of police beating
hundreds of protesting Honda workers, slammed the government in
parliament and called the police "barbaric." On Monday, policemen were seen hitting hundreds of cowering
workers with canes after surrounding them.

By Tom Doggett and Chris Baltimore WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives and Senate
negotiators finished work on Tuesday on energy legislation that
aims to boost traditional oil, natural gas and electricity
supplies and would double production of the gasoline additive
ethanol.

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